The memorable broadcast from February 1968 which chronicled Walter Cronkite's visit to the front lines of Vietnam following the Tet Offensive.
The special ended with the now legendary personal commentary from Cronkite declaring that the war was unwinnable, and that the best option was to negotiate for an end to the battle. That analysis would famously lead Lyndon Johnson, watching the broadcast, to declare "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America."
My thanks to the late YouTube channel btm0815ma for first providing this nugget.
Reviewer:WCFields857
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June 22, 2023 Subject:
Cronkite on the tilt
In his autobiography, Cronkite explained that his opinions on the Tet Offensive (in tthe coverage Americans got to see) arose out from the fact that he
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had 'tilted' to the side of the 'dissidents' in the so called 'anti-war' movement. Nugyen Xuan Oanh, the 'government critic' whom he interviewed was one of the very few remaining South Vietnamese officials who did not spend time in a North Vietnamese 're-education' camp. Unfortunately Cronkite was unable to go north of the border and interview critics of the North Vietnamese communist government. They were all securely hidden from the western media's awareness in what is known today as the Bamboo Gulag. Here is another fascinating youtube 'nugget' from Cronkite's reporting of the Tet Offensive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btFRSFz_Q24
Reviewer:Histoseek
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May 31, 2022 Subject:
Important Piece of History
I saw this news report on YouTube. It was up there for about a year before it was removed. I can tell that this is the exact same copy of the video that
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was taken down. It has the color bars, the production slate, and the commercials. Cronkite's special report is important since it changed a lot of Americans' minds about the conflict in Vietnam. I appreciate the fact that you were able to upload this report to the Internet Archive!
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